She is one of the funniest writers laugh-out-loud funny. This is a piercing, perceptive and deeply funny novel about the nature of life, and about finding your family wherever you can, wherever you get comfort and something approaching love. Homes is a very, very funny writer, brilliant at pinpointing the ridiculous nature of 21st-century living. ObserverĪ wonderful, wild, heartbreaking, hilarious and astonishing novel. May We Be Forgiven has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved, all told through the eyes of Larry David. AM Homes can't really be compared to any other writer no one else is quite as dark and funny and elegant all at the same time. You want to run away but you find yourself compelled to look at the reflection. Her writing exerts a push-pull that feels like being in a hall of mirrors. She excels in portraying the minutiae of a dysfunctional family (is there any other kind?), creating characters who are both repellent and magnetic. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.ĪM Homes is a masterful dissector of modern American life. May We Be Forgiven explores contemporary orphans losing and finding themselves anew and it speaks above all to the power of personal transformation - simultaneously terrifying and inspiring. At the novel's heart are the spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to re-form itself. But this is also a savage and dizzyingly inventive vision of contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer - the strange jargons of its language, its passive aggressive institutions, its inhabitants' desperate craving for intimacy and their pushing it away with litigation, technology, paranoia. In May We Be Forgiven, Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life - at individual lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family and history.The cast of characters experience adultery, accidents, divorce, and death. Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then one day George loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013
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